L.A. Gets Stunning News 1 Year After Banning High Capacity Magazines

Just about one year ago, gun grabbers in Los Angeles implemented a new gun control measure infringing upon the rights of their residents, ostensibly in an effort to lower the violent crime rates.

The L.A. City Council passed an ordinance in July banning so-called “high capacity” magazines, more commonly referred to as standard capacity magazines in the rest of the free United States. That ordinance went into effect in November.

According to Business Insider, Councilman Paul Krekorian revealed his utter ignorance about guns and gun rights when he said of the bill, “The step we’re taking today is not a wild step. People who want to defend homes don’t need a 1,000-round drum magazine to do so.”

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However, instead of lowering violent crime rates, as the gun grabbers insinuated the citywide ban would do, violent crime has gone up about 20 percent.

In fact, though the overall crime rate in L.A. is down, much like the rest of the country as a whole, violent crimes like aggravated assault and armed robbery have gone up, as per the LAPD, 20 percent and 16 percent respectively, also similar to most other Democrat-controlled, “gun-free” dystopian urban centers across the nation.

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Sadly, the L.A. City Council forgot to factor in one important part of the equation when passing their ordinance — the fact that criminals by definition don’t follow the laws. If a criminal knows he will already be on the hook for whatever criminal act he is engaging in, an additional charge for possessing a “high capacity” magazine isn’t much of a deterrence at all.

Even more unfortunate is the fact that, once again, the law-abiding and innocent residents of L.A. have been placed at a further disadvantage to the criminal element.

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Making all of this even more of a cruel joke perpetrated on the law-abiding is the fact that criminals don’t tend to use “high capacity” magazines in scary “assault weapons” to commit their crimes, preferring instead to use small, easily concealable handguns obtained via illegal means.

Furthermore, the gun control advocates who run the rest of the state learned nothing from L.A.’s failed experiment, passing into law a statewide ban on “high capacity” magazines earlier in July, part of a broader package of gun control laws making Commiefornia one of the worst when it comes to respecting the Second Amendment and civil rights of citizens.